Instead of doubting, just look it up: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/valve-pc-controller-usage-statistics,37853.html

Many noname controller disguise themselves as x360 and the main way to get any controller working when a x360 is required is x360ce which disguises any controller as x360. You can even use your keyboard as x360. Plus this is 5 years old plus this is steam only.

Are any of those attempting wireless connections via a 2.4 GHz dongle? Really that's the only reason you need a driver in the first place. All controllers are otherwise compatible with xinput.

The steam controller has it's own dongle, with a driver in the kernel, which modern xbox controller could have.

Nah, mate, you don't got to do anything but hit the windows update button. Proprietary versions ship with Windows which will automatically update with Windows. Windows will also tell you directly in device manager, as I've said.

Haven't used windows 11 yet but in 10 i had to manually install gfx drivers

Okay, now I am talking to a wall. Like seriously, you've never had a driver you needed to specifically update? I am surprised. I've had to revert AMD and Nvidia drivers. I also just recently had to uninstall xow and install xone.

As I repeatedly said, most drivers are already in the kernel. I have a non-class compliant, 15 yo usb audio interface which is EOL according to the manufacturer and for which the latest 64-bit driver vor windows is for windows 7. It has a driver in the linux kernel and it works. Mainboard soundchip? Driver in the kernel! Network adapter? Driver in the kernel! Firewire pci card? Driver in the kernel! Good wifi/bt chipset? Driver in the kernel! 99% of your hardware require no install of a driver. NVIDIAs driver used to be spotty, but I heard it is better now. With AMD i personally never had any problem. Only drivers I had to manually install in like ever have been for shitty realtek wifi chips and a ffb-wheel (which would have worked but without ffb).

I don’t care, my opinion differs. Linux is supposed to be the OS of choice and customization.

And you're free to go the slow and time consuming way with gui. Just accept that because of choice and customisation not every fringe detail about your pc will be avaible in a gui unless you choose your custom solution for displaying them.

Especially when PlayStation controllers work just fine on Windows.

Ps-controllers also work great on Linux! Have to running in Batocera, absolutely no problem plug&play (well, connect and play).

Xbox controllers are the most common controller used.

Are they? I doubt that. I don't know how good or bad they work on Linux, but PS, Steam-Controller, noname-Controllers from AliExpress, Logitech... all working without cli. So maybe Microsoft is the problem here?

But tell me, how do you know what driver is currently being used? (or even what one to install, which Windows will tell you, some distros will tell you what graphics card drivers to install but nothing else.)

Windows will tell you? If you have a dedicated gpu and want to actually use it you have to go to the website of the chipset vendor, search for the driver, look for the doenload, download it, open the downloaded file, allow changes to the system, click next an obscene amount of times while unchecking all the bloat that is bundled with the driver, wait, click again, and then you're good to go. Maybe you are asked to log into your geforce experience account, and then you're good to go. Having some program always running in the background, collecting data, hugging ressources. On Linux you have the choice to install the proprietary or the open source driver. And it just works (at least for AMD since 2019 for me)

Clearly, drivers need to be updated or even rolled back. There have been updates to the open-source drivers.

In Linux most drivers are kernel modules and you generally don't interact with them at all. Everything just works. Exceptions are gfx cards and shitty wireless chipsets. Maybe FFB driving wheels. Besides that, every driver update is tested and happens automatically when your package manager installs updates (which can be done via GUI).

No driver is perfect so they do break things and need to get reverted.

That is just objectively wrong. Simple drivers for simple devices can be implemented perfectly and so can more complicated ones, which they sometimes even are. Tell me which driver you had to "revert". Was it for a NVIDIA GPU?

I just want to have my computer work so I can get back to writing code, playing games, and watching shows. Anything that gets in the way is not really worth the time.

Same here, so i prefer one line in the terminal over opening a window, navigating with the mouse, searching in lists, clicking all these buttons, navigsting through a file picker... not worth my time (see, it is about speed!)

My Futro S740 with an J4105 CPU consumes up to 14 Watts according to this article. It is faster than a rpi 4b plus i bought it refurbished for 40€. I think a system with an I5 6500t will need even more power under load.

Well, I have limited time and happen to know what the microchip crisis was actually about. If he makes this the introduction of his article, he really should try to be more factual and less simplyfing. It sends a signal what to expect from the rest of the article. If have since then skimmed over the article and found some complaints about big tech that I share but in absolutly no way anything that could make things better nor a concise explanation.

And he gets stuff wrong all the time.:

• His depiction of capitlism as something where you create value and get rewarded vs feudalism where you own stuff and get rewarded is fundamentally screwed. How does he think John Rockefeller made his fortune? By refining oil? Well, I'm pretty sure he never in his live refined even one barrel of crude oil. How did Howard Hughes made his fortune? Making something valuable is for some (some also skip this through inheritance) the first step of becoming a super rich. The next step is always letting others (or even your money) work for you, give them less than they deserve and take more than you need.
• Companies trying to maximise profits and being not consumer friendly is no thing that was born in the information age. Already the light bulb had planned obsolence, food safety regulations haven't always existed so people literally died because some companies liked producing cheaper more than having healthy costumers, tons of highly addictive drugs were sold to people with various claims, most of the time without medical evidence. Consumer protection is a thing that emerged from people fighting for it, and in the end, becoming law. Why this extra step with questionable effects when we could just say: "corporations have to ensure that they're products are made in a way so they last as long as possible plus must provide ways to repair them really cheap and if anyone fails to comply their company gets taken away by the state"?

It seems to me that he is so much brainwashed by capitalist propaganda that he refuses to call capitalism a broken system despite him decribing it as a broken system but with a different name.

You're absolutly right, but this is about host os, not container os

Das ist schon nicht mehr lustig. Das macht mir Angst.

What's a sun? You're trippin?

Why not? Of course you should not install or uninsta anything while rsync runs...

I would argue that rsync is better suited to clone your file system when using linux. Just prepare the partitions (plus point: you can alter partition sizes and reorganise like having a new partition (or even device) for your /home or whatever) and mount them, then

sudo rsync -ahPHAXx --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found} / /mnt

Then fix your fstab and reinstall your boot loader. Way faster than dd and can be done on a running system.

Why dd over rsync?

Yes, using uuid is mandatory for that setup. Nvidia driver is only necessary if you want to use the hardware acceleration features, the basic display functions will work. And nothing forces you to not install intel, nvidia and amd drivers. You could also install the most common wireless drivers, if you know that you will use computers which rely on wifi for network connectivity and want to use the internet, which you don't want in general.

Efi vs mbr and secure boot are also issues for persistent live sticks.

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